Get your questions ready and enjoy meeting likeminded at our usual spot at the heart of the Century City – thanks to our newest Global LAVA sponsor Littler recognized as a Leading Firm in Chambers Global 2016 and acknowledged as "North America Innovative Lawyers" by the Financial Times.

The world has become interconnected, thanks to its digitalization – no wonder today’s startups are born global and "globality" is baked into their roots.

This month Global LAVA features a special guest-speaker, a global entrepreneur and an author, Mr. Kevin S. Parikh, Esq. who serves as Advisor of USource Information Technologies and is a Partner and Global Chief Executive Officer at Avasant. (More on LinkedIn: click here)

Get your questions ready and enjoy meeting likeminded at our usual spot at the heart of the Century City – thanks to our newest Global LAVA sponsor Littler recognized as a Leading Firm in Chambers Global 2016 and acknowledged as "North America Innovative Lawyers" by the Financial Times.

Key Points to be discussed:

- The new IT reality and the digital mesh: opportunities and threats
- Main strategic technology trends at a glance
- How to embrace a digital business strategy for global customers while driving sales
- Cognitive technology and why by 2020, 90% of companies will use it
- Industrial changes and what’s next?

Moderator:

Victoria Silchenko, Ph.D. – Creator & Chair of Global LAVA SIG, a Board Director of LAVA, Founder &CEO of Metropole Capital Group and Founder and Producer of the Alternative Funding Forum. One of the leading alternative funding exerts; in 2013 was invited to the White House as a crowdfunding champion and to the Leadership Summit organized by the United Nations. Huffington Post contributor and Los Angeles Business Journal Op-Ed guest writer. Adjunct professor at California Lutheran University, teaching Entrepreneurial Finance course for MBA program. Previously worked at the Milken Institute and directly with Dr. Arthur Laffer.

Events are free for paid LAVA members and sponsors and $35 for all others, unless otherwise noted.